February 2005 - Page 4 of 5

February 14, 2005

Anil on the Eason Jordan resignation and blogger firings — he says nobody's ever been fired from blogging, only from displaying poor judgement in a public space #

February 13, 2005

Ask Mefi on life-changing childhood experiences — fascinating thread tapping into the soul of Metafilter #

Jazz Composer Nabs Grammy After Web-Only Sales — first artist to ever win a Grammy without selling in retail stores #

Del.icio.us Popular sparklines — link removed: the sparklines were killing the Delicious server (via) #

The Late Night TV Page — late night talk show lineups, with RSS feeds for each (via) #

Katamari Damacy hats for sale — now with new colors (via) #

Nintendo's V-Pocket may turn the Nintendo DS into a PDA — just a rumor for now, Games Industry is more skeptical #

WarTuning, use your Wifi enabled laptop to scan open iTunes shares while driving — wait until an iPod clone supports this! it's an idea fleshed out in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe (via) #

February 12, 2005

LokiTorrent fined $1 million in Dallas court — even though they didn't host a single file #

February 11, 2005

Geocaching with Google Maps and Terraserver — plus: Jason wrote a great little utility for generating splitscreen views of both #

First homebrew game for the Nintendo DS! — not surprisingly, a Tetris clone #

Google Maps hacking and bookmarklets — including animating an entire route of driving directions (via) #

Katamari Damacy live-action role playing — dedicated fans (via) #

Mark Jen comments on his blog-related firing from Google — does Google have an official policy on blogs? (via) #

Sorting Del.icio.us Most Popular by most recent — Joshua should probably do this by default #

Kottke interviews David Bernal, the dancer behind the Gene Kelly VW Golf GTI commercial — don't miss the essential Kollaboration video #

Flash: Son of a Peach — mildly not safe for work; what happened after Mario rescued the Princess? (via) #

February 10, 2005

Ultra Gleeper — a webpage recommendations engine using your feed list, blog, and del.icio.us; read the detailed summary #

Chameleon, a feature-rich Bloglines proxy — figures out your favorite feeds, and displays popular links in your feeds #

Google offers to host Wikipedia — Archive.org would be an even better fit, if they had the resources to spare (via) #

Whispering imps on magic posters — a recurring motif (via) #

LokiTorrent shut down by MPAA — worse, the site's creator is turning over his server logs #

Salon editor and founder David Talbot leaving the magazine — after their first profitable quarter ever (via) #

February 9, 2005

Newsburst, c|net's new web-based RSS reader — much closer to My Yahoo than Bloglines (via) #

Salon digs into Amazon's funding of 43 Things — the article borders on paranoid; check out Robot Co-op's response (via) #

New National Lampoon film to debut on DVD within four days of theatrical release — expect to see more of this, like I mentioned before (via) #

1.5 million Gmail invites available — for all practical purposes, this takes Gmail out of private beta #

Google Maps can return raw XML for parsing — the applications of this are endless, but what are the terms of service? #

Seattle Times article on Smoosh — they're touring with Mates of State, a perfect fit #

Smoosh — two sisters from Seattle, age 10 and 12, play lovely indie-pop; clips on Amazon #

Flickr Graph — neat Flash visualization of Flickr user networks and images (via) #

Lexblog, MT-hosted blogs for lawyers — I'm impressed by their design work, like Asbestos Law and Traumatic Brain Injury Blog #

Tecmo sues Dead or Alive modders for creating naked character skins — yet another example of a dumb company suing its biggest fans (via) #

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music — amazing collection of 180 genres and 1,189 samples, all buried under a truly awful Flash interface #

MP3 Tunes launches — DRM-free MP3s, but their server is swamped right now (via) #

Estonian TV commercials from the 1980s — supremely weird; don't miss Kanahakkliha (via) #

Image: Card Check — originally from Modern Humorist #

Wil Wheaton to appear on CSI — Zach and Nick aside, I wish more working actors would blog (via) #

Pac-Man Must Die — collaborative wireless Pac Man game spread across shared portable displays (via) #

Smash the Tones — convert any MP3 or MIDI to a free ringtone; it's legal under fair use guidelines (via) #

Turn your Mac mini into a low-cost home studio — it ends up costing around $1000, not counting the display (via) #

O'Reilly interview with Flickr's Stewart Butterfield — growth stats, API ideas, and coming out of beta (via) #

Zawodny confirms Mark Jen was fired because of his blog — he talked to him directly #

February 8, 2005

VideoHelp, video conversion tutorials and DVD reviews — because I'm constantly losing this bookmark #

Buffington starts super-niche topical blog to capture Adwords revenue — remember, Asbestos News for all your asbestos-related needs (via) #

Superman Is A Dick — all those oddball comic covers finally given a permanent home (via) #

Taste for the Web — great parody of Paul Graham; if you get this, you're a geek (via) #

Amazon tells Alan to remove Netflix/iTunes links from Amazon Light — if you use the Amazon web services, you can't link to any other commercial website!? #

Mark Fletcher's comments on the Jeeves/Bloglines buyout — like any good geek, Bloglines' CEO is a Monty Python fan #

Baby NameVoyager — Java applet, interactive charting of baby name popularity (via) #